Project description:Kelly and SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells were treated with retinoic acid for 3 days. Gene expression profiles from untreated and treated cells were obtained using microarrays (Clariom D) to analyze the retinoic acid-induced changes.
Project description:Neuroblastoma is a pediatric tumor that accounts for more than 15% of cancer-related deaths in children. Survival chances for high-risk patients are less than 50%. Retinoic acid treatment is part of the maintenance therapy given to neuroblastoma patients; however, not all tumors respond to retinoic acid-mediated differentiation. Among neuroblastoma tumors, two phenotypically distinct cell types-adrenergic (ADRN) and mesenchymal (MES), have been identified based on their super-enhancer landscape and transcriptional core regulatory circuitries. We hypothesized that distinct super-enhancers in these different tumor cells could mediate differential response to retinoic acid. To this end, we treated four different neuroblastoma cell lines, comprising both ADRN (MYCN amplified and non-amplified) and MES subtypes, with retinoic acid and studied the super-enhancer landscape upon treatment and after removal of retinoic acid. Using H3K27ac ChIP-seq paired with RNA-seq, we compared the super-enhancers in cells that respond to retinoic acid-mediated differentiation versus those that fail to differentiate. We identified unique super-enhancers associated with cells differentiation; however, even among cells that respond to treatment, there was heterogeneity upon removal of retinoic acid, with MYCN amplified cells remaining differentiated whereas MYCN non-amplified cells reverted to a proliferative state. This study identifies regulatory super-enhancers as a plausible mechanism behind the differential response to retinoic acid-mediated differentiation.
Project description:The aim of this experiment is to study the gene expression response of DLG2 overexpression in neuroblastoma. Four different conditions were compared in neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells, with 4 biological replicates each: 1) Control (no DLG2 overexpression, no retinoic acid treatment), 2) RA (no DLG2 overexpression, retinoic acid treatment), 3) DLG2 (DLG2 overexpression, no retinoic acid treatment), 4) DLG2-RA (DLG2 overexpression, retinoic acid treatment)
Project description:Neuroblastoma is a pediatric tumor that accounts for more than 15% of cancer-related deaths in children. Survival chances for high-risk patients are less than 50%. Retinoic acid treatment is part of the maintenance therapy given to neuroblastoma patients; however, not all tumors respond to retinoic acid-mediated differentiation. Among neuroblastoma tumors, two phenotypically distinct cell types-adrenergic (ADRN) and mesenchymal (MES), have been identified based on their super-enhancer landscape and transcriptional core regulatory circuitries. We hypothesized that distinct super-enhancers in these different tumor cells could mediate differential response to retinoic acid. To this end, we treated four different neuroblastoma cell lines, comprising both ADRN (MYCN amplified and non-amplified) and MES subtypes, with retinoic acid and studied the super-enhancer landscape upon treatment and after removal of retinoic acid. Using H3K27ac ChIP-seq paired with RNA-seq, we compared the super-enhancers in cells that respond to retinoic acid-mediated differentiation versus those that fail to differentiate. We identified unique super-enhancers associated with cells differentiation; however, even among cells that respond to treatment, there was heterogeneity upon removal of retinoic acid, with MYCN amplified cells remaining differentiated whereas MYCN non-amplified cells reverted to a proliferative state. This study identifies regulatory super-enhancers as a plausible mechanism behind the differential response to retinoic acid-mediated differentiation.
Project description:DNA topoisomerase IIB has an important role in ligand mediated transcriptional regulation of gene expression. SH-SY5Y is a neuroblastoma cell line that can be induced to differentiate into neuronal-like cells in response to retinoic acid. In this study TOP2B has been knocked out using crispr-cas9 to determine the role of TOP2B in the transcriptional response to retinoic acid. RNA was prepared from untreated wild type and TOP2B null SH-SY5Y cells and from cells exposed to 10 uM All Trans Retinoic Acid (ATRA) for 24 hours.